Dressing in feathers: the construction of the Indian in American popular culture

Abstract

* Introduction: Constructing the Indian, 1830s1990s S. Elizabeth Bird. * The First but Not the Last of the Vanishing Indians: Edwin Forrest and Mythic Re-creations of the Native Population Sally L. Jones. * The Narratives of Sitting Bulls Surrender: Bailey, Dix & Meads Photographic Western Frank Goodyear. * Reduced to Images: American Indians in Nineteenth Century Advertising Jeffrey Steele. * Hudsons Bay Company Indians: Images of Native People and the Red River Pageant, 1920 Peter Geller. * Science and Spectacle: Native American Representation in Early Cinema Alison Griffiths. * There Is Madness in the Air: The Haskell Homecoming and Popular Representations of Sport in Federal Indian Boarding Schools John Bloom. * Indigenous Versus Colonial Discourse: Alcohol and American Indian Identity Bonnie Duran. * My Grandmother Was a Cherokee Princess: Representations of Indians in Southern History Joel W. Martin. * Florida Seminoles and the Marketing of the Last Frontier Jay Mechling. * Segregated Stories: The Colonial Contours of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument C. Richard King. * A War of Words: How News Frames Define Legitimacy in a Native Conflict Cynthia-Lou Coleman. * Going Indian: Discovery, Adoption, and Renaming Toward a True American, from Deerslayer to Dances with Wolves Robert Baird. * Her Beautiful Savage: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male Peter van Lent. * Cultural Heritage in Northern Exposure Annette M. Taylor. * Not My Fantasy: The Persistence of Indian Imagery in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman S. Elizabeth Bird. * Moo Mesa: Some Thoughts on Stereotypes and Image Appropriation Theodore S. Jojola. * What Does One Look Like? Debra L. Merskin.